STEM Girl Spotlight: Kaitlyn Reed Bunker, Electrical Engineer

Kaitlyn Reed Bunker has recently earned her PhD in Electrical Engineering and now works at Rocky Mountain Institute. I recently had the opportunity to talk with her and learn all about her background in STEM. Here is our conversation: Hillary: Why did you decide to...

A Change in Perspective

A few days ago, I was watching TV when a commercial came across the screen that caught my attention. Normally, I use commercial breaks to investigate updates on my social media outlets, so it takes a lot for commercial to intrigue me. Verizon Wireless produces this...

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

May 12th’s Google doodle honored the birthday of biochemist Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Hodgkin is famous for her important achievements in protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. But before her remarkable accomplishments...

Girls in Science: No Boys Allowed!

There has been a lot of talk lately about STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education, and especially about getting girls more interested in those subjects. But what is actually being done to inspire girls to get into science and to close the gap...

“Gills” in Marine Biology

“Shark!” For many people this animal may be a cause of fear, but for some girls it can lead to fascinating facts about marine biology and other STEM fields. A new organization, called the Gills Club, is inspiring and educating...

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